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💎 Beautiful avatars as a microservice

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Avatar generates beautiful gradient avatars for your app or homepage
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Tobias Lins
Hi, Product Hunters! I am excited to share my first open source project called Avatar. It is a simple service for generating default avatars for your users. Every unique username has an individual avatar. It is also perfect to prototype your web applications and apps.
Csaba Kissi
@linstobias is it possible to generate faces?
Tobias Lins
@csaba_kissi Currently it just supports gradients! Do you mean simple faces that are also unique on top of the gradient?
Csaba Kissi
@linstobias exactly
David Baruchel
@linstobias Would love to have the possibility to add a letter in the gradient, like an initial. It think it would make it a bit more personal and distinguishable.
Mike Coutermarsh
@davidbaruchel @linstobias An initial would be cool!
Aristotle Manolakos
Neat product! Was this based on or inspired by @rauchg's cylindrical rotation idea? https://rauchg.com/2017/2016-in-...
Tobias Lins
@stotlem @rauchg Yes, he gave me this idea - but algorithm is not the same :b I waited quite a long time to make his one available for everyone, then I thought, why just don't build it by myself :)
Product Pearson
This is really cool. Great way to give some individuality to users on web apps who fail to upload profile pictures or avatars. This would spice up comment streams and even services like Twitter should now consider this as since dropping the egg which usually had different background colours, it now seems to be the same for everyone with the new default face.
Tobias Lins
@theashtube Thank you for your great feedback! :) This is exactly the problem I wanted to solve.
Product Pearson
@linstobias no problem, Tobias. Looking forward to watching it grow.
svetlyak40wt
RoboHash is more interesting. And open source too.
Tobias Lins
@svetlyak40wt RoboHash is also interesting, yes, but you can't use it for every type of app because Robo's are very particular! :)
Joshua Pinter
@linstobias @svetlyak40wt Exactly. Can't use that for enterprise software.
Danny Fiorentini
Nice one man, we were just about to build a custom one but may use yours now. How long do you expect before the "initials" will be included? We definitely would like that. :)
Tobias Lins
@dannyfiorentini I am still not sure if initials should be included into the SVG/png directly. In my opinion, adding initials should be done on top of the image (in your app/page directly) I was thinking about releasing a react/react native component for that. What do you think? :)
Danny Fiorentini
@linstobias ah yes, you're right. Thanks!
Francis Kim
🤘 Awesome! Added to: https://www.producthunt.com/@fra...
Joshua Pinter
Nice work. Easy and simple to use. I'd like to use it offline. Any plans to make it into a npm package?
Tobias Lins
@joshuapinter This is something I didn't think about. Great idea. I will hit you up to get some more information about the usage if this is OK? :)
Joshua Pinter
@linstobias Perfect. It'll take you just an hour or two to do, I'm sure.
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